Jon Lester tossed the Boston Red Sox’s 18th no-hitter, seven years ago today.
Lester on Monday, May 19, 2008 no-hit the Kansas Royals for a 7-0 victory at Fenway Park. The no-no was the fourth caught by Red Sox catcher Jason Varitek, who set a new major league record.
Author: Dirk Lammers
https://www.nonohitters.com/about-the-author/ Dirk Lammers is a veteran journalist who began rooting for the New York Mets in the early-1970s when the team’s no no-hitter count was barely 2,000 games old. Lammers has since turned his research into Baseball’s No-Hit Wonders: More Than a Century of Pitching’s Greatest Feats (Unbridled Books) and NoNoHitters.com, where he maintains the Internet's largest archive of no-hitter information.
